Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only affect me but four percent of the College--that is if Harvard men reflect the national average of protonopia. This means, simply, that instead of a handful of men sleeping through exams now four percent will. Furthermore, the University obviously ignored the fact that protonopia is a sex-linked disease, ten times more common in men than in women. There might be some justification for the move in a co-ed school. There's no possible justification in a man's College like Harvard. Constant Reader
...investigators feared that some sex perverts would inevitably go undetected in Government jobs, but most federal bureaus and agencies, they concluded sharply, had been lazy or downright negligent about cleaning house. The Senators recommended tighter laws and harsher punishment for sex perversion in the District of Columbia, more intensive examination of job applicants...
After seven years of warfare the women of conflicting Greek nations band together to defeat their husband's greed by depriving them of something that men evidently desire more than riches and power--"sex." Idler's female players make it plain that the effect of their decision works two ways. But with much ado they manage to hold out longer than their husbands, and thus win an unqualified victory...
...class of '52, in its campaign, incorporated sex, swamis and shmoos that gave Union onlookers beer and pretzels until the porters forced them from the hall. A singer from the Balinese Room in a Boston Hotel was also banned from the freshman sanctum, but campaigned on outside until the cold night dispersed most of her audience. Two candidates managed to smuggle three girls who acted as signposts into the dining halls, despite the Union Committee's ruling "no sex" brought about by the '47 contest...
...comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity of sex but an absorption with self...